Automated Systems Based on Human Skill (Joint Design of Technology and Organisation)

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the 5th IFAC Symposium on Automated Systems Based on Human Skill, held in Berlin, Germany, 26-28 September 1995. The symposium, like previous ones in the series, brought together researchers, developers and users of complex human-machine systems. Discussions covered manufacturing, process control, aircraft and air traffic control, and administrative processes with an emphasis on how to design such systems and integrate both developers and users into the design process. The main issues addressed, therefore, were the joint engineering of production processes, information technology and work organisation and the possibility that this may lead to the re-definition of human operators in process automation.

Chapter headings: Plenary Papers. Process Control: Human Process Communication. Shopfloor Control and Management Systems. Administrative Processes I. Production Planning Support in Process Industries. Improving Quality of Working Life. Administrative Processes II. Machines Learning to See and to Act. Environmental Engineering. Human-Machine Interface. Sociotechnical Design of Production. Aircraft and Air-Traffic Control. Technology-Art-Craftmanship-and People.